Waed Alhajj

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Waed Alhajj’s sculptures are portraits of people and conditions, sometimes humorously, sometimes sarcastically revealed. The mass of clay becomes a mass of people, not idealized bodies, but symbols of joy, suffering and love.

In the animated film “Fluchtweg”, realized in 2022, and its award-winning successor “Fluchtweg 2”, the artist recalls his emigration to Germany, “the path you didn’t choose”. The film “Fluchtweg 2” consists of 2046 photos of sound reliefs created especially for this purpose and changed again and again. “The war is terrible. What remains from all this devastation are only the memories, the love and the dreams that you pack in a small bag …”

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